What are you currently reading?

[epilogue]

Baldwin is a boss

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i have a barnes and noble gift card and no clue how i want to spend it...even though it's a gift card i'm not a big fan of spending a good bit on a book i've never read...i think i'll get suttree, but will still have at least $35 or so to spend

[LetMeSleep]

My god this is brutal.

[ghost]

Really wanted to love this...and parts of it were quite excellent. But it didn't quite get there for me. Overwritten and self-consciously SWEEPING WESTERN EPIC. Raced through the first 50 pages then took about 3 weeks trudging through the rest. Still pretty stunning for a first novel so I'll def check out what he does next.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

what sweeping westerns would you recommend? i have cold mountain but haven’t tried it

[ghost]

what sweeping westerns would you recommend? i have cold mountain but haven’t tried it

all the pretty horses, lonesome dove, blazing saddles...

[dad]

[lennytheweedwhacker]

what sweeping westerns would you recommend? i have cold mountain but haven’t tried it

all the pretty horses, lonesome dove, blazing saddles...

love all the pretty horses and blazing saddles is a fake name

I should try the dove though

[lennytheweedwhacker]

a little over halfway through fortress of solitude...i'm this far along so i might as well finish it

[ghost]

what sweeping westerns would you recommend? i have cold mountain but haven’t tried it

all the pretty horses, lonesome dove, blazing saddles...

love all the pretty horses and blazing saddles is a fake name

I should try the dove though

if you read lonesome dove can you tell me about it? i've never finished it.

[Malloy]

i'm reading some joshua clover poems online for free because most all of my books are gone

[lennytheweedwhacker]

what sweeping westerns would you recommend? i have cold mountain but haven’t tried it

all the pretty horses, lonesome dove, blazing saddles...

love all the pretty horses and blazing saddles is a fake name

I should try the dove though

if you read lonesome dove can you tell me about it? i've never finished it.

i will try my best

that book is long so it may be a few years so i can plan ahead

[Simple Torture]

This sounds fucked up and weird, am eager to get into it:

Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws and the incessant buzz of cicadas. While her husband is consumed with his job, Asa is left to explore her surroundings on her own: she makes trips to the supermarket, halfheartedly looks for work, and tries to find interesting ways of killing time.

One day, while running an errand for her mother-in-law, she comes across a strange creature, follows it to the embankment of a river, and ends up falling into a hole—a hole that seems to have been made specifically for her. This is the first in a series of bizarre experiences that drive Asa deeper into the mysteries of this rural landscape filled with eccentric characters and unidentifiable creatures, leading her to question her role in this world, and eventually, her sanity.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

swamplandia!

[Simple Torture]

swamplandia!

Love this one.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

swamplandia!

Love this one.

i've heard mixed over the years, but i'm glad to hear your praise

i'm about 50 pages in...it's not blowing me away so far, but i'm interested

[epilogue]

I'm giving Swann's Way a go, finally.

[Mickey]

I'm giving Swann's Way a go, finally.

Beautiful book. One of my all-time favorites. You have to really commit to "Swann in Love" to get the payoff but it's arguably better than "Combray."

[VinylGuy]

Finished Pola oloixarac's Mona, and its so fucking good....its been edited in the US recently, you guys should get it

[4/5]

Baldwin is a boss

Oh yeah, finished this several weeks ago. I happened to coincidentally be teaching MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail in class as I was reading this which I think was a really excellent way to experience this one. Fascinating to the see the similarities and differences between the two essays. I usually bill LFBJ as the best thing we read in the class and now I'm looking forward to pulling some excerpts from Baldwin and doing some comparative readings in future years.